# Game of Thrones 3.05 "Kissed by Fire" 4/28/13 No spoilers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-3-05-kissed-by-fire-4-28-13-no-spoilers/656979 "2013-04-29T02:37:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-3-05-kissed-by-fire-4-28-13-no-spoilers/656979/261 "2013-05-06T00:29:59Z")
> [@Shakester](#): > > Aegon I Targaryen took over the Seven Kingdoms around three hundred years before the events of GoT\*. Which, in our terms, is about as long ago as the [Glorious Revolution](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution) of [William and Mary](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_and_Mary). Or, to put it another way, a century before the American Revolution and Napoleon. > > So, really _quite_ a long time ago. Eh, it depends on your perspective. Compared to the ages of the great families of Westeros and the age of the Wall, 300 years is really not very long ago at all. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-3-05-kissed-by-fire-4-28-13-no-spoilers/656979/262 "2013-05-06T00:34:54Z")
> [@coremelt](#): > > We have already seen that its possible for humans to make pacts with them eg craster I speculate they are somehow turning the infants into White Walkers. I haven’t read the reads or looked up spoilers so I don’t know if this is true or not. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-3-05-kissed-by-fire-4-28-13-no-spoilers/656979/263 "2013-05-07T20:22:10Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > It’s not a lateral, it’s a doubling. Loras is already heir to the Reach and the demesnes of the Tyrells. Marrying Sansa adds the North and the demesnes of the Starks. By contrast marrying Cersei doesn’t add anything but prestige and perhaps a nice dowry. Plus Cersei is presumably older than Loras, whereas Sansa is certainly younger… Plus many people in the kingdom think (correctly) that Cersei is a brotherfucker, and Loras might not want to taint his and his family’s name by marrying her. > [@Minnie\_Luna](#): > > …Sansa is already head over heels with Loras, she will certainly defend him. I’m not sure of that. I think she has no objection to him, and would be delighted to get the hell out of King’s Landing as his bride, but I see nothing to suggest she’s “head over heels.” > [@yoyodyne](#): > > [Facebook page is up!](http://www.happyplace.com/23526/game-of-thrones-facebook-recap-season-3-episode-5) Love love love it! > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > No more than any other TV show. Unless infants continue nursing as older children… Oh, wait. Well played. > [@Acsenray](#): > > Well, the entirety of European royalty is descended from Victoria and they all carry the gene for haemophilia Some but not all, on both counts. > [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > … they would’ve agreed there’s a lot more damn Romans around. Bloody Romans. What’ve they ever done for us, anyway? > [@Acsenray](#): > > Eh, it depends on your perspective. Compared to the ages of the great families of Westeros and the age of the Wall, 300 years is really not very long ago at all. I think it was Twain who wrote that to a European, a hundred miles is a long way, while to an American, a hundred years is a long time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-thrones-3-05-kissed-by-fire-4-28-13-no-spoilers/656979.md?page=13)